Ronald I. Dozoretz

Dozoretz is also Founder and Chairman of Genomind, LLC, a company specializing in personalized medicine for neuropsychiatry.

Dozoretz, a psychiatrist, is a recognized national leader and advocate for behavioral health quality, access, and innovation throughout his career. He is a healthcare entrepreneur who also founded and developed two large hospital corporations and multiple other health care companies, in addition to ValueOptions and Genomind. He continues to focus on improving behavioral healthcare services and systems, and to translate innovation and science to clinical practice and patients.

Dozoretz is a leader and member of numerous professional, medical, and civic organizations nationwide. In May 2011, he received an Honorary Doctor of Science from the State University of New York (SUNY). Today, he is a member of the Board of Directors for Case Western Reserve University. He is an appointed Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he teaches graduate students about the evolution of managed care and creating innovative health care companies. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for The Field School and the Board of Trustees of Sidwell Friends School, both in Washington, DC. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.

A strong supporter of education, Dozoretz is Founding Contributor of the Dozoretz National Institute for Minorities in Applied Sciences at Norfolk State University. He successfully created a mentoring program for young students in response to the President’s Summit for America’s Future. He has been an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dozoretz has held numerous positions with healthcare-related professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems. He previously served as a member of the Board of Advisers for RAND Health, and Board of Directors for the National Health Policy Council and for the National Foundation for Mental Health. He has advised the Newt Gingrich Center for Health Transformation.

Dozoretz is a continuing leader in setting healthcare industry standards and policy, and he has advised the White House during several Administrations in developing healthcare policy. He has served as Vice Chairman of the Reduction in Bureaucracy Group of the White House Health Reform Task Force.

Dozoretz is active in cultural and community affairs as well. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He has served as a Trustee of the Duke Ellington Fund and for the Virginia Opera Association.

A graduate of the State University of New York, Dozoretz received his medical degree from the University of Buffalo with specialty training in psychiatry from Case Western University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduation, he served as Lieutenant Commander at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia. He then began his career in private practice as Founder and Senior Partner of Center Psychiatrists, Ltd.

Dozoretz also founded one of the first psychiatric hospitals in Eastern Virginia, which evolved into his first U.S. psychiatric hospital system company.